mindfulness
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Like an athlete or musician practices for a performance, Mindfulness Meditation is our daily practice for living life to its greatest potential. Each day for the first week, listen to this file three times a day, practicing the methods within.

Please practice using this prepared practice. There are three components to this practice. First, practice directing your attention to the breath. Second, practice returning your attention to the breath anytime you notice feelings, thoughts or sensations. The goal is NOT to stop thinking, feeling, or having sensations. The purpose is simply to note when you do this, and practice bringing your attention back to a focal point, in this practice, the breath. The third part of this practice, is to begin to notice how easy and natural it is, to stay in the present when we notice out attention drifting into either the past or the future. Notice during this week times when you mindfully and intuitively return form distressing thoughts, feelings or sensations back to your breath and the present.

Hypnosis is another form of meditation. This technique by Roger Moore guides you into creating an anchor (or cue) to enter into a state of self-hypnosis. Enjoy and practice this technique, it is more than relaxation, it is a tool for managing any of the difficulties of the day. Enjoy, and leave a comment below!  

This is a really good guided minduflness (Vipassana) Meditation I discovered on youtube. Although a bit longer than many, it is a very good introduction and a great video to revisit to practice Mindfulness Meditation. Enjoy! Please leave a comment below

A Mindfulness Meditation with Chocolate Mindfulness meditation while eating has proven to be a useful tool in treating earting disorders, helping people control weight and even just learn the basics of mindfulness.  Although this is presented with chocolate, this mindfulness meditataion could easily be done with a grape, a rasin or any piece of food. So, find a piece of chocolate, and enjoy todays meditation! Please leave your comments below

Tonight Dave talked about meaning and asked four questions to help us establish meaning: 1. What does this mean? 2. How do I know that’s true? 3. What else could it mean? 4. What is a beneficial meaning for me? As meditation questions, these are very useful in contemplation meditation. Please enjoy this broadcast from tonight, an join us every Sunday and Tuesday night! I missed everyone this week, my son is off to US Army bootcamp at Ft. Benning in the morning, so I was spending the with hime tonight, but will rejoin Dave on Tuesday night. Please leave your comments or questions below. Also, you can join our Facebook group to discuss all things Mindfulness Meditation or really any meditation and personal improvement related issues. –Richard

Mindfulness Meditation is a tool for managing the flow of thoughts. Our thoughts are much like traffic. Sometimes we know where we are going, other times we are not sure we are in the right lane. Decisions abound and just like the highways of concrete the highways of our mind can be difficult to navigate. Mindfulness Meditation is like a GPS for the mind. Please leave your comments below

Mindfulness Meditation can help you overcome loneliness, by helping you become comfortable with you alone, and in this moment. It would seem the cure for loneliness would be other people, and that it wold be counterintuitive to focus on yourself. But no matter where you go, you take yourself with you, and the key to overcoming loneliness is to become comfortable with yourself. Mindfulness Meditation teaches that skill. Please leave your comments below!

Mindfulness Meditation and Gratitude What are you thankful for today? Did you know that by practicing gratitude researches have shown you can improve your happiness quotient by 25%? Mindfulness Meditation is a great way for learning to focus on what you have not what you are missing. In life we often miss the joy of NOT having a toothache, instead simply noticing the misery of having one. This mindfulness meditation is about what we are thankful for. Please leave a comment in the box below, indicating on thing you are thankful for today!

Tis simple technique, focuses on breath and movement in a mindful way. Mindfulness meditation has so many characteristics and ways of expression.

Today’s daily meditation is based on the words of Psalm 139. Many people on youtube have viewed todays daily meditation and have found it to be helpful. Sometimes scripture, poetry or other sources of literature are the best place to find a meditation for the day. As you spend time, mindfully meditation during this time, let the words speak to you.  One does not have to have a particular religious faith to enjoy these words, many people, even with no religious experience find these words comforting and uplifting. Mindfulness Meditation is about paying attention to the present, during this time, be fully present.  Never asleep, but deeply relaxed and enjoy. I created this mindfulness meditation last year, after eating dinner with a priest in Austin.  We were talking about how [...]